Monthly Archives: August 2011

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Mayor Bloomberg would blanket the city with red-light cameras if he could — and maybe even publish the names of scofflaws who blow through intersections.
Our Erin Einhorn reports:
“I think we should have ‘em on every corner if we could,” the … More »

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Mayor Bloomberg would blanket the city with red-light cameras if he could — and maybe even publish the names of scofflaws who blow through intersections.
Our Erin Einhorn reports:
“I think we should have ‘em on every corner if we could,” the … More »

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Mayor Bloomberg would blanket the city with red-light cameras if he could — and maybe even publish the names of scofflaws who blow through intersections.
Our Erin Einhorn reports:
“I think we should have ‘em on every corner if we could,” the … More »

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While we wait to see what Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr. is going to do in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case — as our Melissa Grace reported, Vance’s office could file papers to dismiss the whole mess — state Sen. Bill Perkins is out with th… More »

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While we wait to see what Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr. is going to do in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case — as our Melissa Grace reported, Vance’s office could file papers to dismiss the whole mess — state Sen. Bill Perkins is out with th… More »

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While we wait to see what Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr. is going to do in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case — as our Melissa Grace reported, Vance’s office could file papers to dismiss the whole mess — state Sen. Bill Perkins is out with th… More »

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Much of the debate over firearms in the Legislature has been over safety, registration thresholds and most recently, whether or not to mandate microstamping, a controversial idea in which each gun would have a signature imprint on cartridges, which could help police match spent cartridges to specific weapons. Now, however, Assembly Republican Minority Leader Brian […] More »

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This kind of fried my brain, but as he was ending today’s regular appearance on Fox and Friends this morning, Donald Trump got a presidential shoutout from… Rob Lowe. Yeah, the guy from “St. Elmo’s Fire.” Lowe does happen to have a long-standing inte… More »

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This kind of fried my brain, but as he was ending today’s regular appearance on Fox and Friends this morning, Donald Trump got a presidential shoutout from… Rob Lowe. Yeah, the guy from “St. Elmo’s Fire.” Lowe does happen to have a long-standing inte… More »

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This kind of fried my brain, but as he was ending today’s regular appearance on Fox and Friends this morning, Donald Trump got a presidential shoutout from… Rob Lowe. Yeah, the guy from “St. Elmo’s Fire.” Lowe does happen to have a long-standing inte… More »

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A veteran western New York Assemblyman announced today he would be resigning his post on Sept. 6, leaving seven vacancies in the state Legislature’s lower house. Assemblyman Jim Hayes, R-Amherst, will be taking an undisclosed finance job in the private sector, according to a release from his office. “I am proud of my years of [...] More »

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New York’s senior senator is saying no to a dome. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., says there are more cost-effective alternatives to building an “unnecessary $1.6 billion concrete ceiling” over the Hillview Reservoir in Yonkers and that Environmental Protection Agency officials are amenable to changes that wouldn’t mandate such an expensive ceiling. “New York ratepayers [...] More »

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The imminent departure of Western New York Republican Jim Hayes leaves a chunky hole in the minority conference. Hayes was ranking member on Ways and Means Committee. He’s served in the chamber for almost 13 years. The release announcing his departure — effective Sept. 6 — discusses the financial imperatives of two daughters approaching college […] More »

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Assemblyman Jim Hayes, a Buffalo-area Republican, just announced he’s resigning effective Sept. 6 to pursue a private sector career in finance and investments. Hayes told me during a brief telephone interview just now (I reached him at his Amherst office) that the decision to depart is “bittersweet,” and one that only a man who has More »

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Gov. Cuomo has directed that flags on state government buildings be flown at half-staff on Wednesday, August 24 in honor of a soldier from Kingston who died in Zabul, Afghanistan on August 19.
Army Private 1st Class Douglas L. Cordo died of injuries s… More »

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